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Author Gustaitis, Joseph, 1944- author.

Title Chicago transformed : World War I and the Windy City / Joseph Gustaitis.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Chicago: microcosm of America -- Part I. Before the war -- "Throw the dictionary at it": Chicago in 1913 -- Preparedness and public opinion: why Chicago went to war -- Part II. Chicago's soldiers -- "Kia-Kiak": the Black Hawk division -- Black devils and partridges: the 370th Infantry Regiment -- Part III. Life on the home front -- Wheatless, meatless, and coalless: patriotic Chicago -- Chicago's bright ideas: the four minute men and the American Patriotic League -- Part IV. Chicago women and the sexual revolution -- "The work is there to do": Chicago women in wartime -- "Sex o'clock in America": Chicago and the first sexual revolution -- Part V. Chicago's changing ethnic landscape -- "The biggest town in the world": the great migration -- "That was music": Chicago jazz -- "Sweet home Chicago": the Chicago blues -- "Coming to stay": the beginning of Mexican Chicago -- The end of Kultur: the plight of Chicago's Germans -- Part VI. After the war -- "Taking new heart": organized labor and the postwar strikes -- "Eyes to the future": Chicago in 1919.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-
World War, 1914-1918 -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term Since 1875
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gustaitis, Joseph Alan, 1944- Chicago transformed. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016] 9780809334988 0809334984 (DLC) 2015042807 (OCoLC)919104199
ISBN 9780809334995 (electronic book)
0809334992 (electronic book)
9780809334988
0809334984

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